Virginia voyages

History

HAKLUYT, RICHARD

David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn (editors, intro.)

Americas

Oxford University

The Trouble With Donovan Croft

Foster brothers were all right, thought Keith - he'd had them before. But how was he supposed to cope with Donovan, a West Indian boy who was so unhappy he couldn't speak?

The Trouble with Donovan Croft

Ashley, Bernard

Children's Books

Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults.

The Return

Levitin, Sonia

Literature & Fiction

Baby Sister (Archway Novels)

Sachs, Marilyn

1957. First Edition. 277 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Waster staining to first few pages, text remains readable. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Tape to inside spine. Water staining to edges.

The children's bells

E. FARJEON

The classic story that every child should know in a new version by one of the UK's top artists. Ian Beck's work is known throughout the world - he has even won a prize in Japan. This attractive picture book is vividly illustrated with design and hypographic style to make this the most classic and attractive edition currently available. It is a story written especially for reading aloud and is a companion volume to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with more titles to follow.

The Gingerbread Boy

Beck, Ian.

Ian Beck, top illustrator, tackles the classic fairy tales. Re-told with charm and humour, this is a straight-forward and child-friendly version of a tale that every child should know. Ian Beck's picture books have sold over a million copies, with one under option for TV. BLDelightful watercolour illustrations marry nostalgic charm with contemporary appeal BLPublished as part of an extremely collectable series with Little Red Riding, Goldilocks, and The Gingerbread Boy.

The Three Little Pigs (Oxford Storybook)

King of Another Country

In an African village lived a young drummer called Ojo. He never helped anybody. He always said `no', and never said `yes'. This is the story of what happened when Ojo met a fierce creature in the forest, of how he became king of another country, and of how he found a strange carved door. Should he open it? Should he say `yes'? Or should he say `no'? This book is intended for interest age: 5+

French, Fiona

Science Fiction & Fantasy

On the Internet, nobody knows you're using reference books. Darrel Ince's Dictionary of the Internet will guide readers through the twisty passages of current jargon, slang, and technical terms with aplomb. The dictionary is thorough--over 4,000 entries cover commercial, recreational, and propeller-head (geek) language.Acknowledging the weakness of ink-and-paper references in the digital age, the book comes with a CD-ROM containing all of the text, linked and ready for Web updates. "Checksum," "gossip architecture," and "Zen mail" all find homes here, and the appendices explaining Internet country codes, common emoticons, and standard chat abbreviations will be welcome by any networked computer. The information is scalable--newbies should get as much out of it as hardcore nerds, and the excellent cross-referencing makes it perfect for bootstrapping self-learners. --Rob Lightner

A dictionary of the Internet

Ince, Darrel

Reference

This study spans the most formative period of the new Ghana republic. The author, who taught in the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana) from 1949 to 1959, has written an unusually well-informed account of political life in what has become a pioneer country among the new African states,. Primarily a work of recent history, it draws on the author's detailed knowledge of the Ghanaian scene to illustrate the course of events which brought the British colony of the Gold Coast to independence in 1957 under a People's Party recruited largely from a new class of elementary-school-leavers. The book opens with the formation of the Convention People's Party and the assumption of office by the CPP after the 1951 election, describes the struggle for control between the CPP and its opponents between the 1954 and 1956 elections, and closes with an account of the growth of single-party power under Nkrumah's leadership.

Politics in Ghana, 1946-1960

Austin, Dennis

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